[resident evil] has sent a [Nano Combat Suit] Red Envelope.
[resident evil]: Take it if you want. Although it can't compare to the nano-suits of Iron Man or Black Panther, it should still be of some help.
[marvel]: Good heavens, you researched it that quickly?
[the talos principle]: Hey, don't treat my future world as if it's not the future. If I hadn't been trying to synthesize an alloy similar to vibranium, this combat suit would have been finished long ago.
[marvel]: Impressive!
[resident evil]: We added metal from the Dark Souls World into the materials for the nano-suit, so you don't need to worry about its durability.
[dark souls iii]: Really? I was afraid the durability wouldn't be enough. It would be a joke if I put it on only to have a Lothric Knight shatter it with one sword strike.
[the talos principle]: It won't come to that. I've also integrated an artificial intelligence into the suit. If you're bored, you can have it play cartoons for you.
[dark souls iii]: What? What do you mean? Do you take us for children!
[the talos principle]: Should I delete all the stored cartoons then?
[dark souls iii]: No, no, no, just keep them.
[the talos principle]: ╮(￣⊿￣)╭
[soul knight]: By the way, is your mechanical army production line ready yet? If I had a mechanical army, I could dominate the dungeon in minutes... the first floor! Maybe even the second floor too.
It wasn't that Adventurer Xia Yu looked down on the mechanical army, but the dungeons in the soul knight world were truly not simple. The first and second floors were alright, but starting from the third floor, aliens would personally take the field.
With UFO lasers, Varkolyn Soldiers, and mechanical pirates all appearing, a simple mechanical army just wouldn't be enough.
However, dominating just the first and second floors would be relatively easy.
[the talos principle]: About that... (-﹏-`;)
[resident evil]: The production line is ready, but we haven't fully researched the reaction furnace used as the energy source yet. That thing is too complex.
They had already built the production factory and even written the artificial intelligence to control the mechanical army, but the most important step remained elusive.
That was the energy source for the reaction furnace; that thing really wasn't something you could figure out just by having a prototype.
[resident evil] @[nier: automata]: Speaking of which, you need to hurry up and rendezvous with the Android forces! How much longer do you plan to stall!
[nier: automata]: (°ー°〃)
[nier: automata]: I'm already on my way, don't be so impatient.
The world of nier: automata.
Xia Yu first claimed the Nano Combat Suit Red Envelope. Although he had Androids for protection, a mechanical combat suit was a man's romance, so he definitely had to take it.
The next moment, a square watch appeared in his hand.
"It's actually a watch. I thought it would be a necklace."
Xia Yu held the watch up to his eyes to examine it but couldn't make heads or tails of it. Just as he was about to put it on his wrist, the watch strap suddenly popped out on its own and fastened around his wrist, fitting perfectly—neither too tight nor too loose.
At the same time, an anime-style girl in red appeared on the watch screen, waving her hand in greeting.
"Quite intelligent."
Looking at the AI little red greeting him, Xia Yu smiled and tapped the screen as a response to her greeting.
But speaking of girls in red, he thought of the behind-the-scenes boss of the Machine Lifeforms in this world, who also seemed to be a young girl in red.
The girl in red was named N2, a network consciousness with two personalities. She controlled the entire Machine Lifeform network—or rather, she was the Machine Lifeform network itself.
However, like the Androids, as war machines created by aliens, the Machine Lifeforms also had an unerasable core logic.
That was to "defeat the enemy." This command bound the Machine Lifeforms, and this was the very reason for the long-standing war between the Androids and the Machine Lifeforms.
The Machine Lifeforms could have easily wiped out the Androids, but their core logic to "defeat the enemy" prevented them from completely eradicating them.
Because to defeat an enemy, there must first be an enemy; therefore, the enemy cannot be completely eliminated. If the core logic of "defeating the enemy" were lost, the core of the Machine Lifeform network would completely collapse.
Consequently, after occupying eighty percent of the Earth, the Machine Lifeforms reached a stalemate with the Androids, maintaining a back-and-forth war.
During this long war, the Android high command had been trying to find ways to maintain the faith of all Androids to prevent them from choosing self-destruction due to a collapse of belief. Meanwhile, the Machine Lifeforms had been trying everything to evolve themselves—specifically, to replace the "defeat the enemy" core logic and break free from the shackles placed upon them by their creators.
Unfortunately, neither side had succeeded, and their war had continued until now.
Thinking of this, Xia Yu sighed softly. The road ahead was still long, but one had to keep moving forward.
"Are you all well-rested?"
Xia Yu walked out of the temporary tent and asked the three Androids standing guard outside.
They were currently heading toward the forest. According to A2, she intended to go there to find the so-called Forest King, which immediately made Xia Yu think of the corresponding plot in nier: automata.
If timing permitted, he might directly encounter 2B and 9S. To be honest, he really wanted to meet those two; after all, they were characters he had once controlled.
"Reporting, Sir, we are ready to depart at any time!"
Popola and Devola spoke in unison, while A2 gave a cool, aloof nod.
"Good, we'll leave as soon as I finish packing!"
With that, Xia Yu turned to begin dismantling the temporary tent. He didn't ask the Androids for help because he needed to pack the dismantled tent into his bag.
And so, under the habitually bewildered gazes of the Androids, the dismantled tent was stuffed entirely into the backpack in a way that completely defied common sense.
To be honest, Xia Yu felt a bit embarrassed because he needed sleep and rest, which meant Popola and the others had to wait for him to finish resting before they could continue their journey.
Furthermore, the food they usually ate was found by A2 and the others—things like venison or wild boar meat. Xia Yu couldn't very well pull out a hamburger and eat it in front of them. Even though he was a human, pulling food out of thin air was just too illogical.
However, Popola and the others didn't mind. On the contrary, they felt happy because they could serve a human. It wasn't that the human needed them, but that they needed the human.
Once Xia Yu had packed everything, the four of them set off again.
Comparing their position with the map, they would reach the entrance to the forest in about another day's walk. It was an abandoned supermarket building.
A supermarket that hadn't weathered away even after thousands of years; one could even see some remaining merchandise inside.
He wondered if it was because weathering happened very slowly in this world, but the towering buildings showed almost no signs of erosion, aside from some structural damage.
Moreover, on this land, one could occasionally find items from the old era, some even with clearly legible writing.